Thomas Chittenden
2023 - Present
2027
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Thomas Chittenden (Democratic Party) is a member of the Vermont State Senate, representing Chittenden Southeast District. He assumed office on January 4, 2023. His current term ends on January 6, 2027.
Chittenden (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Vermont State Senate to represent Chittenden Southeast District. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Thomas Chittenden was born in Dunedin, Florida, and lives in Vermont. Chittenden earned a B.S. in business administration and management information systems in 1999, and an M.B.A. in 2005, both from the University of Vermont. His career experience includes working as a systems engineer at Competitive Computing and as a senior lecturer at the University of Vermont.[1][2]
Committee assignments
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2023-2024
Chittenden was assigned to the following committees:
- Senate Education Committee
- Senate Transportation Committee
- Information Technology Oversight Committee
- Joint Legislative Child Protection Oversight Committee
- Judicial Rules Committee
2021-2022
Chittenden was assigned to the following committees:
Sponsored legislation
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Elections
2024
See also: Vermont State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Southeast District (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Southeast District on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Thomas Chittenden (D) | 26.8 | 28,729 | |
| ✔ | Virginia Lyons (D) | 23.2 | 24,922 | |
| ✔ | Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D) | 20.0 | 21,498 | |
| Bruce Roy (R) | 15.0 | 16,080 | ||
| Rohan St. Marthe (R) | 8.0 | 8,619 | ||
| Taylor Craven (Independent) | 6.6 | 7,107 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 301 | ||
| Total votes: 107,256 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Southeast District (3 seats)
Incumbent Virginia Lyons, incumbent Thomas Chittenden, and incumbent Kesha Ram Hinsdale defeated Louis Meyers in the Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Southeast District on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Virginia Lyons | 30.4 | 6,111 | |
| ✔ | Thomas Chittenden | 28.3 | 5,678 | |
| ✔ | Kesha Ram Hinsdale | 27.1 | 5,440 | |
| Louis Meyers | 13.6 | 2,735 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 117 | ||
| Total votes: 20,081 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Southeast District (3 seats)
Bruce Roy advanced from the Republican primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Southeast District on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Bruce Roy | 90.0 | 1,527 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 10.0 | 169 | ||
| Total votes: 1,696 | ||||
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Endorsements
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2022
See also: Vermont State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Southeast District (3 seats)
Incumbent Thomas Chittenden, incumbent Virginia Lyons, and Kesha Ram Hinsdale defeated Dean Rolland and Rohan St. Marthe in the general election for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Southeast District on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Thomas Chittenden (D) | 29.5 | 26,579 | |
| ✔ | Virginia Lyons (D) | 27.8 | 25,068 | |
| ✔ | Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D / Vermont Progressive Party) | 24.8 | 22,335 | |
| Dean Rolland (R) | 9.8 | 8,785 | ||
| Rohan St. Marthe (R) | 7.8 | 7,035 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 243 | ||
| Total votes: 90,045 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Southeast District (3 seats)
Incumbent Virginia Lyons, Kesha Ram Hinsdale, and incumbent Thomas Chittenden defeated Lewis Mudge and Steve May in the Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Southeast District on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Virginia Lyons | 29.4 | 12,501 | |
| ✔ | Kesha Ram Hinsdale | 27.1 | 11,517 | |
| ✔ | Thomas Chittenden | 25.8 | 10,996 | |
| Lewis Mudge | 11.0 | 4,668 | ||
| Steve May | 6.6 | 2,801 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 79 | ||
| Total votes: 42,562 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ken Scott (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Southeast District (3 seats)
Incumbent Thomas Chittenden advanced from the Republican primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Southeast District on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Thomas Chittenden (Write-in) | 18.9 | 74 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 81.1 | 317 | ||
| Total votes: 391 | ||||
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2020
See also: Vermont State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for Vermont State Senate Chittenden District (Historical) (6 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Vermont State Senate Chittenden District (Historical) on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Thomas Chittenden (D) | 12.9 | 50,974 | |
| ✔ | Virginia Lyons (D) | 12.3 | 48,602 | |
| ✔ | Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D) | 11.8 | 46,513 | |
| ✔ | Michael Sirotkin (D) | 11.6 | 45,819 | |
| ✔ | Philip Baruth (D / Vermont Progressive Party) | 11.1 | 43,923 | |
| ✔ | Christopher Pearson (Vermont Progressive Party / D) | 8.5 | 33,445 | |
| Susan Bowen (R) | 5.5 | 21,900 | ||
| Tom Chastenay (R) | 4.9 | 19,300 | ||
| Ericka Redic (R) | 4.8 | 18,945 | ||
| Kumulia Long (R) | 4.8 | 18,763 | ||
| Dean Rolland (R) | 4.5 | 17,604 | ||
| Kylie Hollingsworth (R) | 4.1 | 16,319 | ||
| James Ehlers (Independent) | 3.0 | 11,919 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 631 | ||
| Total votes: 394,657 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden District (Historical) (6 seats)
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden District (Historical) on August 11, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Virginia Lyons | 13.9 | 21,198 | |
| ✔ | Kesha Ram Hinsdale | 13.2 | 20,181 | |
| ✔ | Michael Sirotkin | 10.0 | 15,208 | |
| ✔ | Philip Baruth | 9.6 | 14,677 | |
| ✔ | Thomas Chittenden | 8.9 | 13,556 | |
| ✔ | Christopher Pearson | 7.7 | 11,764 | |
| June Heston | 7.7 | 11,719 | ||
| David Scherr | 6.3 | 9,562 | ||
| Dylan Giambatista | 6.1 | 9,331 | ||
| Erhard Mahnke | 5.2 | 7,878 | ||
| Adam Roof | 5.1 | 7,785 | ||
| Louis Meyers | 3.2 | 4,838 | ||
| Steve May | 2.9 | 4,371 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 271 | ||
| Total votes: 152,339 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden District (Historical) (6 seats)
Tom Chastenay and Ericka Redic advanced from the Republican primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden District (Historical) on August 11, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Tom Chastenay | 48.8 | 6,725 | |
| ✔ | Ericka Redic | 42.2 | 5,810 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 9.0 | 1,247 | ||
| Total votes: 13,782 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jean Sirois (R)
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
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2020
Thomas Chittenden completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Chittenden's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I'm a Senior Lecturer at the University of Vermont in the Grossman School of Business. I've been at the University since 2010 and I teach courses focused on the application of Information Technology in the modern enterprise. In 2018, I was elected by the University of Vermont Faculty to serve as their Faculty Senate President, and I can't wait to use that experience as your new Chittenden County State Senator. This past March, I was re-elected to my third term on the South Burlington City Council, and for the last five years I have served on the Green Mountain Transit Board (previously known as CCTA) representing South Burlington as the Chair and Vice Chair of this 13- member commission.
- We need Vermont to start growing again so that there are more opportunities for current and future generations to stay, live, work and thrive here in Vermont.
- We need to align our small towns and cities to work across boundaries for better outcomes at lower costs through regionalization of public services.
- We are in an affordability crisis - we need to reduce the tax burden on our residents by growing our grand lists, expanding our economy and regionalizing our services.
We are in a climate emergency and we need our state strategies to support people and our planet by reducing our CO2 emissions through smarter transportation, housing and growth policies.
We need to address the systemic racism that persists in many aspects of our society. We need to understand the affects of yesterdays immoral governance on the people of today and repair these harms.
I am a proud Vermonter but I am not proud of our gun laws. I want to see us adopt the same sensible regulatory lens we have on motorized vehicles to firearms.
Howard Dean and Barack Obama.
I remember the Berlin Wall being dismantled. I was 12 years old at the time and it was the first time I started understanding the geopoltical landscape and how soverign nations choose different economic systems and national policy.
I bagged groceries at Martins (now Hannafords) at the University Mall. I had it for ~2 years (Junior & Senior of High School).
Diversity of thought, selection method and composition. Decisions are better when there are different perspectives around the table. Having two legislative chambers ensures that representatives of smaller legislative districts are balanced against the regional and macro-state interests.
Mostly yes. I am running for State Senate because my experience with three terms on the South Burlington City Council and as Chair of the Board of Commissioners for the largest public transporatation municipal entity in the state has exposed me to relevant experience in how the state operates, funds, and elects its leaders. I am only running for State Senate because I have this relevant experience as I believe it will inform my service to best represent our community.
Climate Change. It is an existential threat to our species.
One that is decided by independent redistricting commissions with hired non-partisan state staff - and NOT by politicians.
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2024
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2023
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In 2023, the Vermont State Legislature was in session from January 4 to May 12.
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2022
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2021
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In 2021, the Vermont State Legislature was in session from January 6 to May 21.
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2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 11, 2020
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Thomas Chittenden," accessed February 27, 2023
